Uncementing Narratives: Memorial Architecture as a Way to Support Intergenerational Remembrance and Contest Dominant Memory Politics in Sarajevo




Narrating the Past for the Present and Future

Ćatović Hughes, Selma; Kukić, Ena; Tanović, Sabina

Barndt Kerstin, Jaeger Stephan

PublisherDe Gruyter

2024

Museums, Narratives, and Critical Histories

9783110787443

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9783110787443

http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110787443



The chapter focuses on the Memorial Complex Tunnel D-B, to explore two architectural design proposals - “ZE912” and “Kenopsia” – that take different approaches in grappling with the complexities of memorial architecture, while aiming to inspire meaningful intergenerational transmission of memory and collective remembrance. Belonging to different generations that experienced the Siege of Sarajevo, authors use autoethnographic research and a research-by-design approach to propose practices and visibilities that both complicate current memory-politics and support collective remembrance.

Keywords: culture of remembrance; difficult heritage; memorial architecture; place-related memorial; Siege of Sarajevo



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